Exterior House Painting Ongoing

demarpaint said:
Those rollers work well. Masking is a chore, and over spray can be a problem for sure. We did very little residential spray work, too much of a PITA. What a lot of painters don't realize with their liability policy is the verbiage is often worded "per occurrence." So when it comes to spray painting, their deductible, and over spray claims can become confusing, probably by design. Lets say a painter is spraying outside and hits a dozen cars with over spray and they put in claims to remove the over spray from all twelve cars. His deductible is times twelve, since each car blitzed with paint is an occurrence. That can add up fast, real fast, and that's just one example.

I knew a guy who sprayed the interior of a multi-million dollar house on the north shore of L.I. He brought us in as a subcontractor to paint trim. He was going to spray the ceilings, then cut in and brush roll the walls, in a partially furnished home. I said no way would I spray the ceilings, he had a stupid comment so I simply shut up and worked. About two days later the customer informed him her baby grand piano and other furniture in the living room had over spray on it. No one worked in that room the doorways were sealed off in plastic. However he didn't cover any furniture in there, what he didn't realize was the central AC was on sucked up paint and deposited it all over the house, the baby grand happened to be in the line of fire. A costly blunder.......
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But how did the paint job part itself turn out?
 
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Pablo said:
Super Paint is not trashy as you make it seem. Please. 100%+ adequate for non-thirsty cement fiber siding. The previous worse paint, darker color is just fine after 16 -17 years. For wood I would use Emerald for better coverage perhaps.

Emerald for the trim and doors though.
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You do you, but paint cost is 10-15% of the entire job. Seems silly to save 3-5% by going with a brand's entry level paint instead of their premium product.
 
zzyzzx said:
But how did the paint job part itself turn out?
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On the piano he blitzed, or the ceilings in the rooms he did? LOL The ceilings should have been back rolled, he didn't want to do that either. He did pay well, but didn't want to listen. So I only say things once to people like that.
 
Pablo said:
What is Emerald for the body buying me? Nothing. Period
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https://images.sherwin-williams.com/content_images/sw-pdf-quality-compare-guide.pdf

Weather and fade resistance.
 
Pablo said:
Well eventually

I want Hawaii condo wife wants water condo anywhere but
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Sue and I bought a 950 sq/ft 2br/1ba condo so she had an out of town place to stay for the last couple of years of her RN career. It was a nice condo in a very nice area and we had good neighbors, but after having that place, as nice as it was, it made me realize condo living was not for me. I just looked, the HOA fees are now $728 per month!

Scott
 
slo town said:
Sue and I bought a 950 sq/ft 2br/1ba condo so she had an out of town place to stay for the last couple of years of her RN career. It was a nice condo in a very nice area and we had good neighbors, but after having that place, as nice as it was, it made me realize condo living was not for me. I just looked, the HOA fees are now $728 per month!

Scott
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Wow. Hawaii retirement is not for the faint of wallet! $10 milk and hamburger, etc.
 
The Critic said:
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Weather and fade resistance.
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I use Sherwin Williams paint and have decades long painting experience. I painted for a large apartment complex through high school and my first years in college. Doing that was good money at the time!

I've used SW paints for a long time, everything from A-100 to Super Paint to Emerald. With respect to interior paint work, I've used Super Paint on many occasions but without question Emerald is superior.

One other comment, the A-100 is the contractor grade flipper stuff. Super Paint is very much a step up from that.

FWIW,

Scott
 
ripcord said:
Wow. Hawaii retirement is not for the faint of wallet! $10 milk and hamburger, etc.
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Our condo wasn't in Hawaii. It was in the Almaden area of San Jose, CA. It was a DISGUSTING MESS when we bought it. The original owner couple were both chain smokers. I literally stripped the ENTIRE interior to a bare shell, down the the concrete slab, even down to the studs in areas. I had to seal all the walls and floors with a special shellac that's used for covering smoke damage.

Check out the bathroom exhaust fan and furnace filter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After the pictures is the original listing with pictures when we sold it. I'm surprised the listing is still there. BTW, I used Super Paint on everything.

Scott

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slo town said:
Our condo wasn't in Hawaii. It was in the Almaden area of San Jose, CA. It was a DISGUSTING MESS when we bought it. The original owner couple were both chain smokers. I literally stripped the ENTIRE interior to a bare shell, down the the concrete slab, even down to the studs in areas. I had to seal all the walls and floors with a special shellac that's used for covering smoke damage.

Check out the bathroom exhaust fan and furnace filter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After the pictures is the original listing with pictures when we sold it. I'm surprised the listing is still there. BTW, I used Super Paint on everything.

Scott

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Holy smokes! That's a three Labrador filter.
 
zzyzzx said:
I want to know if the paint job on the walls and ceiling came out OK.
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The ceilings sprayed were not back rolled and imo looked lousy. Walls were cut in and rolled, and looked good. There were areas on the ceilings that looked like ice cream that was melting. It wasn't my job, I suggested how I would do it, he insisted he sprayed all the time. So be it. I would have back rolled the ceilings and they would have looked the way they were supposed to look.
 
ripcord said:
Holy smokes! That's a three Labrador filter.
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That's not dog hair, that's human existence grime. So gross! The place had a popcorn ceiling that was cigarette smoke infused. I stripped that off in shorts and a t-shirt, wetting it with a water filled pressure sprayer, probably getting a decade's worth of nicotine in one day. I remember my arms and upper body being covered with brownish yellow water. Even the wall light switches didn't work because their inner workings were gummed up with cigarette smoke residue, and I mean that literally! I look back on these old pictures and am amazed I lived through the process. And I was in my mid-60s when I did this, singlehandedly too.

Scott

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slo town said:
That's not dog hair, that's human existence grime. So gross! The place had a popcorn ceiling that was cigarette smoke infused. I stripped that off in shorts and a t-shirt, wetting it with a water filled pressure sprayer, probably getting a decade's worth of nicotine in one day. I remember my arms and upper body being covered with brownish yellow water. Even the wall light switches didn't work because their inner workings were gummed up with cigarette smoke residue, and I mean that literally! I look back on these old pictures and am amazed I lived through the process. And I was in my mid-60s when I did this, singlehandedly too.

Scott

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But did you get a good buzz? 🚭
 
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